Mads Tolling left Denmark to pursue studies in the U.S. in 2000. After ten years with little musical connection to his birthplace, he decided to start his Danish quartet in 2010 with violin, guitar, bass and drums.

The project really took off when well-established guitarist Jacob Fischer joined the quartet in 2014. Jacob is one of the highest regarded guitarists in Europe, and many compare him to the great Django Reinhardt. Jacob was for twenty years a member of the legendary Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen’s quartet. At age 14, Mads first saw Jacob – in concert with Svend in Copenhagen. About ten years later, Svend donated much of his private music collection to Mads, when he retired from playing music. When ‘The Fiddling Viking’ had his centennial birthday in 2016, it made a lot of sense for Mads to pay special tribute to him. The Mads Tolling Quartet extensive tours in 2015 and 2016 included Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany, and the album Celebrating Svend Asmussen was released around that time.

Besides the Asmussen related material the quartet plays an eclectic mix of originals and standards, including Danish and Swedish folk tunes. A new program is called Masters of Jazz Violin with music and arrangements by Stephane Grappelli, Jean-Luc Ponty, Stuff Smith and Joe Venuti. Since the quartet spans over two continents, the group likes to pay tribute to the rich music traditions in both Denmark and the US in The Danish-American Songbook.

Besides Mads and Jacob, Matthias Petri holds down the bass and Andreas Svendsen plays the drums in the quartet. The group has performed at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, the Black Diamond Royal Library, Jazzhus Montmartre and at some of the top festivals, concert halls and noted jazz clubs in Scandinavia.

We will kick off the jazz festival with some good music and good people. The repertoire is a mix og standards and favorite compositions of the early giants of jazz and bebop.

Mc Einar & KunTakt er med til at skyde første week-end af Copenhagen Jazzfestival i gang med deres unikke poetisk-musikalske jazz/rap/spokenword-univers. Der spilles numre fra de to anmelderroste albums ‘Jeg må ha’ en Coach’ (2011) og ‘Åben dine Læber’ (2016). Med tekster af primært Rune T. Kidde og Mark Hebsgaard og med musik af bandet selv. Kom og få en anderledes én på opleveren!
Einar Enemark – rap/spokenword
Anders Bast – sax/keys/EWI og kor
Jens Kristian Andersen – kontrabas og kor
Thomas Præstegaard – trommer og bækkener

Baun / Petri / Svendsen trioen udvider med to special guests denne aften! Kom og dans med os – vi spiller en masse fed latin, soul og jazz mm. og vi glæder os!
Concert er støttet af KBH Kommune og Statens Kunst Fond.
Frederick Menzies (sax)
Pelle Von Bülow (guitar)
Søren Baun (keys, vokal)
Matthias Petri (bas)
Andreas Svendsen (trommer)

It’s soon Copenhagen Jazz Festival time in Copenhagen and that means that we are gonna be back, playing at our favorite bar in Copenhagen! We’re super excited!
We guarantee a fun night of jazz music so come dance and party with us.
Björn Ingelstam, trp/vc
Jeppe Zacho, sax/vc
Petter Hängsel, trb
Johannes Buhl, pn
Morten Mandel, bs/vc